Trash cans await removal Tuesday at a temporary site in the Bailey Springs neighborhood. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Did you put your trash and recycling out Wednesday morning? This week is the last under the town’s current schedule. We’re all getting new trash and recycling bins and the pickup schedule will changebeginning Oct. 1.

Contractor Republic Waste Services has been collecting our old garbage carts, and hauling them to a temporary trash can graveyard on Bradford Park Drive, off Robert Walker Drive in the Bailey Springs neighborhood. Thousands of the old brown, blue and green trash bins are stacked high awaiting removal. Meanwhile, a supply of new red recycling carts and black trash carts is awaiting delivery. Read the full story

Photo illustration by David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net

People of all ages are invited to a night of stargazing at Fisher Farm Park on Friday, Oct. 5, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., sponsored by Davidson Lands Conservancy. Read the full story

Firefighters responded to two elevator entrapments this week, including one Tuesday at The Davidson Clinic building on Griffith Street where 9 people were trapped.  Also Tuesday, a tree fell across Davidson-Concord Road and briefly stopped traffic before emergency personnel arrived to remove the obstacle. Details on these stories and more, along with a tally of the week’s medical calls, may be found below. Read the full story

Best Town Board meeting ever? Community School of Davidson students taught the Town Board a dance for Davidson Lands Conservancy Green Day festival Saturday. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Updated Wednesday, 11:24 a.m.
Davidson’s Town Board on Tuesday agreed to allow Piedmont Natural Gas to run a gas pipeline through Fisher Farm, off Shearers Road in northeast Davidson. And planning manager Ben McCrary presented the board with a request for money to complete a $2.5 million road connection and improvements in the Potts-Sloan-Beaty corridor on Davidson’s West Side. Read the full story

Davidson’s Town Board on Tuesday began work on a new Capital Improvement Plan – a wish list of proposed town projects, ranging from a badly needed $3 million fire station in east Davidson to street and sidewalk improvements. At their monthly work session, commissioners also approved refinancing $1.6 million in debt, and they looked askance at their counterparts in Cornelius, who rejected joining a regional planning initiative called CONNECT earlier this month. Read the full story

Davidson Police are investigating several break-ins this week, including the Aug. 15 daylight theft of $5,000 in jewelry, camera equipment and collectibles from a house on Evening Primrose Drive, off Davidson-Concord Road. Almost $7,000 worth of firearms were stolen the same morning from a home on Davidson-Concord Road. And almost $3,000 worth of clothes, power tools, and household appliances were stolen from a moving truck as a new family moved to Davidson from Las Vegas.

Also this week, a Davidson woman reported receiving harassing phone calls from two known suspects, and a Shearer Street resident reported a case of financial transaction fraud in which a known suspect obtained $1,930 from the victim under false pretenses.

Details on these stories and more (along with a tally of the week’s arrests, citations, and traffic enforcement) may be found below. Read the full story

Davidson Police on Wednesday were called to two homes out Davidson-Concord Road to investigate reports of break-ins. One home, on Evening Primrose Drive, showed obvious signs of a break-in, including a smashed window and damaged door, according to police. The other home showed no obvious signs of forced entry, and the homeowners were out of town.

Both incidents occurred midday, and it is unclear whether they are related. Police are investigating.

Michaela Amato, of Chasing Pedestrians, and Choch, of the duo Brody and Choch, sang together Saturday night on the Barnstock stage. More photos below. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

HUNTERSVILLE – Organizers promised an expanded Barnstock music festival this year, and in the end they came through. This weekend’s two-day showcase of local music at the Brown family barn off Black Farms Road in Huntersville attracted nearly 1,200 fans and raised $10,000 for local charities.

This festival, which included a headline performance Friday by nationally-known rockers Donna the Buffalo, raised money for Davidson’s volunteer fire department, Second Harvest Food Bank, American Red Cross, Cannon School in Concord and W.A. Hough High School in Cornelius. The charities will share the $10,000 equally. Read the full story